Chapter 3 In This Chapter While the first two chapters of The Curious Classroom encourage us to create a classroom culture of inquiry, through Demonstrating Our Own Curiosity and Investigating Ourselves and Our Classmates, chapter 3 explores frameworks for working with children’s questions. Author Harvey Daniels says, “If we are going to build our instruction […]
Curious Classroom Book Study: Demonstrate Your Own Curiosity
Welcome! I hope you enjoyed the first two chapters of The Curious Classroom by Harvey “Smokey” Daniels and have a few new ideas that you might want to try in your classroom. Listed below is a super quick summary of the introduction for those who are interested. Beyond that you will find my thoughts on […]
The Pumpkin Project
You might be surprised to see a post about pumpkins in June! Yet this project began way back in October when I brought in pumpkins and gourds for a math lesson and for the children to explore at the science center. By November, the children noticed that the gourds were starting to change color, […]
Kindergarten Plant Unit: An Inquiry-Based Approach
Inside: Discover how to use an inquiry-based approach to teach your traditional preschool, kindergarten, or first grade plant unit. The Plant Unit Kit Arrives Every April, the kindergarten plant kit arrives from our science department. Our plant unit includes traditional lessons, but I wanted to use a more inquiry-based approach, so here’s what I tried. […]
The Green Project
This project began in early March when the snowflakes and snowmen that hung in our room just didn’t match what was happening outside our window. The snow had begun to melt, the sun was shining and I was craving green! So I took it all down, sent the snow pants home (bad move because it […]
Kindergarten STEAM: The Paintbrush Project
Want to do a Kindergarten STEAM project with your kiddos, but unsure of where to begin? In this post, I share the steps we went through in designing and building our own paintbrushes. This activity comes to us from our Project Lead the Way program in our unit on structure and function. For this project, we […]
The Envelope Project
We recently did an engineering and design project that was inspired by a child who came to school with a homemade envelope containing his Scholastic book order. I invited him to share it with the class and he told us how he came to make the envelope because he couldn’t find one in […]
Animal Research Projects Step-by-Step
Inside: Discover the step-by-step process I use for animal research projects in kindergarten. Using a Roadmap for Your Animal Research Projects Spring is an exciting time in kindergarten, because the children have now learned how to write and can create their own nonfiction informational books. But in order to get the results we want, our […]
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